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    High Performance Fan Profile?

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by wrathofdeath, Jun 27, 2016.

  1. wrathofdeath

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    What will happen if I enable that in the BIOS? More fan speeds at certain temps?
     
    wrathofdeath, Jun 27, 2016
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    No, you will get maximum speed all the time.
     
    slayer2333, Jun 27, 2016
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    more like turbo boost for fan, it will be running at 75-100% speed, like a jet getting ready to take off, but the temps are worth, i had 85C when running stress testing on normal mode, with fan @ full speed, max temp of CPU 70c, 15c difference.. hope they included some kinda software inside command center to turn on fan profiles, rather than going to BIOS..
     
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    the new area 51 have this
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    but not ... when the next models come out, these models (15r2-17r3) will be out of any update like always happen with alienware. we pass to be something of the past, we dont exist for them anymore
     
    judal57, Jun 28, 2016
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  5. VICKYGAMEBOY

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    We should make a poll, godamn wish we had the same command center.. but i doubt its gonna happen.. most of the other brands bringing fan control to their softwares except alienware..
     
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    You might be disappointed. Not a lot of laptops have native fancontrol support. Because user error could ruin a laptop unfortunately.
     
    rinneh, Jun 28, 2016
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    other brands do not have fan control, asus for example

    I believe MSi, ACER, and Clevo offer to manually max out the fan if you wish to do so
     
    Mobius 1, Jun 28, 2016
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    The Alienware has it in bios. Performance fan mode. Equal 100% fan noise all the time. strangely it doesnt even cool the hardware much better O__o/
     
    rinneh, Jun 28, 2016
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    Could be useful for people who have 6820HKs

    Still is silly to make the option only accesable in the bios though
     
    Mobius 1, Jun 28, 2016
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    It might, but it is really too loud to be honest. The fan noise is unbearable.
     
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    what i meant by fan control is full turbo speed, just like the MSI and clevo, not the manual tuning ones, once we disable the fan boost, it reverts back to BIOS set fan profile.. Yes giving full fan control is not a good idea.
     
    VICKYGAMEBOY, Jun 28, 2016
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    Why not using HWinfo Fan profile ? You can set it up to max speed or whatever fan profile you want to make. Pretty precise and easy to use, a good tutorial here:
    http://imgur.com/a/UYC3s#0
    I don't really feel the need for a specific Alienware fan control software while we already have this.
     
    slayer2333, Jun 29, 2016
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